EIRSAT-1 Spacecraft - Nanosats Database

Name	EIRSAT-1 (Educational Irish Research Satellite)
Spacecraft type	CubeSat
Units or mass	2U
Status	Operational (Post on X on 2023-12-04 last checked 2023-12-15)
Launched	2023-12-01
NORAD ID	58472
Deployer	QuadPack (XL) [ISISpace]
Launcher	Falcon 9 (425 Project)
Organisation	University College Dublin
Institution	University
Entity type	Academic / Education
Nation	Ireland
Partners	Queens’ University Belfast
Costs	€1.5 million
Oneliner	Test a novel gamma-ray detector module and an experiment with thermal coatings for spacecraft.
Results	How Ireland’s first satellite was almost lost a short time after launch, 2024-03-12: Shortly after launch it was rotating at 5 degrees per second taking 72 seconds to do a full rotation which was in line with expectations. It quickly sped up to 30 degrees per second taking 12 seconds to do a full rotation. By the time mission control in UCD had established contact with it, it was spinning at 50 degrees per second and getting faster. “We couldn’t be happier with the way things are working. All the critical systems are healthy. We have got data back from one of our payloads.” Student-built satellite EIRSAT-1 detects not just one, but two gamma-rays bursts, 2024.
Failure cause	Not a failure, but high rate spinning issues in the beginning.
Notes	Selected by ESA Fly Your Satellite 2017.
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Photo sources	[1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8] [9]
COTS subsystems	OBC - Clyde Space with GPS ADCS - Clyde Space BATTERY - Clyde Space EPS - Clyde Space OBSW - Bright Ascension MCS - Bright Ascension
Subsystems sources	[1] [2]
Keywords	First CubeSat of country
On the same launch	EIRSAT-1 ENSO Hayasat-1 Lilium-1 SpIRIT ALISIO BEESAT-14 BEESAT-15 LOGSATS MDQubeSat-2 Unicorn-2L Unicorn-2M Unicorn-2N

Last modified: 2024-12-23